John Maynard Keynes Quotes

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

John Maynard Keynes

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• I'm a proud family man.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Family
  • Man
  • Proud

• But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Story
  • Research
  • Task

• The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Women
  • Children
  • School

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Myself
  • Thought
  • Income

• I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Wearing
  • Emphasis

• I think on a bucket list for a performer is definitely doing a stage show, whether it's in Vegas or on Broadway or whatever.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Vegas

• I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Pretty
  • Faith
  • Star

• There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Film
  • Right
  • Will

• On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an hour-long warm-up, recovery in-between runs, the training runs, and then the runs themselves.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Up
  • Long
  • Training

• We need to be creative, on the cutting edge, challenged, and it's really hard going. It's relentless, and we're relentless, and we have a history of breaking engineers, producers. I mean, people come out of working with U2 and just go, 'I just don't know what's happened; it feels like a lifetime has passed by.' And that's just the way we work.

  

  Larry Mullen, Jr. U2
  • People
  • Work
  • History

• It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Up
  • Live
  • Age

• My response to Bernie Sanders' you know uh stories you know fairytales is that uh the failure of capitalism is still much better than the success of socialism.

  Garry Kasparov
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• 8) History never repeats itself.

  

  Larry Niven
  • History

• His heart beating faster, his throat drying, Nabby whispered to the driver, ‘Not so bloody fast.’ ‘Tuan?’ ‘All right, all right.’ One of these days he must really get down to the language. There never seemed to be the time, somehow....

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Time
  • Heart

• Life is a journey, you know; and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.

  

  Cat Stevens
  • Life
  • Journey

• Life is like an aimless river The time is now again - Ceiling Unlimited (2002)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Life
  • Time
  • River

• It is not against a body of uninterpreted data, radically thinned descriptions, that we must measure the cogency of our explications, but against the power of the scientific imagination to bring us into touch with the lives of strangers.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Power
  • Imagination

• I taught woman-centered childbirth classes for five years and have a particular interest in the history of childbirth practices.

  

  Jo Beverley
  • History

• If it's the last thing I do, I'm going to destroy every fucking grammar school in England. And Wales. And Northern Ireland.

  

  Anthony Crosland
  • School
  • Going
  • Destroy

• There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Time

• I don't like cheap shots, I really don't.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • Shots

• There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

  

  John Maynard Keynes